AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 6h ago6/10
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Disentangling Linguistic Relatedness from Task Alignment in Cross-Lingual Transfer
Researchers studying cross-lingual transfer in large language models found that fine-tuning on Arabic does not produce language-family-specific improvements. Models with weak initial performance improved across all languages tested, while strong models showed minimal gains regardless of linguistic relatedness, suggesting task-format alignment matters more than linguistic proximity.